/sci/ - Science & Math

Head First Series, good shit.

>>10840674
true

>>10840674
I really wanted to like this book, but I couldn’t. Best book for undergrad linear algebra I think is Dummit and Foote.

>>10840674
How to Prove It by Velleman

>>10840674
I’m working through this book but there’s not very many exercises, even though I’ve been doing all the ‘you should verify’ and proving whatever I can independently. Anyone anons got questions roughly on the Axler level that I can work on?

Also going to study group theory after finishing this and I want a decent book too. Thanks sci

>>10840701
read the wiki there will be textbooks that meet both of your requirements I assure you, keep in mind that Axler wrote the book with the intention of it being a second linear algebra book for undergrads who already finished a matrix/elementary algebra course

>>10840711
Noice thanks. I’ve had some exposure to matrixes and can solve questions in Axler. As for the rest of abstract algebra, I haven’t a clue.

>>10840701
non ironically Serge Lang's Linear Algebra is a better book to introduce students to the concepts "to be used" in Group Theory, while also providing a solid base for LinAlg.

>>10840736
I meant elementary linear algebra which is the same as matrix algebra, the stuff they often teach in highschool

>>10840748
Eh ok...I can live with that too.

>>10840680
Akins sucks

>>10840674
Hoffman and Kunze is better

rotman. advanced modern algebra
atiyah. commutative algebra
baez. gauge fields knots and gravity
smith. invitation to algebraic geometry
guillemin. differential topology
schlichenmaier. riemann surfaces algebraic curves and moduli spaces
griffiths. principles of algebraic geometry
eisenbud. geometry of schemes
berndt. symplectic geometry
shafarevich. basic algebraic geometry
harris. algebraic geometry
choquet-bruhat. analysis manifolds and physics
qing liu. algebraic geometry and arithmetic curves
hatcher. algebraic topology
huybrechts. complex geometry
garrity. electricity and magnetism for mathematicians
nering. elementary linear algebra
eisenbud. commutative algebra
artin. algebra
geroch. mathematical physics
sagan. the symmetric group
etingof. introduction to representation theory
rosenlicht. introduction to analysis
lieb and loss. analysis
narasimhan. complex analysis
gamelin. complex analysis
ahlfors. complex analysis
thompson. calculus made easy
tu. introduction to manifolds
fecko. differential geometry and lie groups for physicists
swinnerton-dyer. analytic theory of abelian varieties
mumford. abelian varieties
zinn-justin. qft and critical phenomena
coleman. aspects of symmetry
zettili. quantum mechanics
sakurai. quantum mechanics
shankar. quantum mechanics
weinberg. lectures on quantum mechanics
weinberg. quantum theory of fields
schutz. introduction to general relativity
schroeder. thermal physics
bertlmann. anomaliese in qft
peskin. quantum field theory
pathria. statistical mechanics
lahiri and pal. first book of qft
ryder. qft
nair. qft
lancaster. qft for the gifted amateur
hori. mirror symmetry
schottenloher. mathematical intro to conformal field theory
georgi. weak interactions
quigg. gauge theories of the weak strong
hennaeaux. quantization of gauge systems
haag. local quantum physics
di francesco. conformal field theory
cohen-tannoudji. quantum mechanics
kaku. qft
woit. quantum theory groups and representations
schwichtenberg. physics from symmetry

>>10841411
then recommend something better

>>10841823
Rotman is garbage.
You recommended just about every algebraic geometry, commutative algebra and QFT text in existence.
>actually recommending Hatcher for algebraic topology instead of Fuchs Fomenko
>actually recommending books with "for physicists" in the name

>>10841849
Why don't you like rotman? I like it more than Lang, maybe I just don't know maybe general algebra books.
I don't know much algebraic topology. I'll have to look at that. Any other books you like?
Why does the name matter? I read them anyways, they're easy to read.

For me, it's Ahlfors complex analysis

Spivak vs Apostol?

>>10841874
Apostol

>>10841889
Why?

>>10841873
The problems are fucking hard mate
I like the geometrical insights and remarks he gives, but I wish he would make the applications of his results to other fields of maths more explicit.

>>10840674
patrician taste

Also, for me it's Landau's Classical Mechanics

>>10841896
Apostol books introduce proof,linear algebra,clear notation and better difficulty curve problems.

If you want a hard book this
http://www.math.harvard.edu/~shlomo/

>>10841823
Artin’s Álgebra is a meme.

>>10841925
For me, it’s Hubbard & Hubbard

>>10840674
more like pseud freshman-taking-his-first-proof-based-course tier textbooks
>hurr durr matrices don't exist
>hurr durr determinants are too le inelegant
this is the worst kind of book: it takes a beautiful and useful subject, and deforms it to make it conform to the author's personal ideas of "elegance".

https://ljk.imag.fr/membres/Emmanuel.Maitre/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=b07.stflour.pdf

Determinants are too useful and the transposition/ordering definition of determinant he gives isn't really used that much except for more esoteric subsets of LA.

>>10841872
>any other books you like
We have essentially no interests in common besides algebra.
But Fuchs-Fomenko is absolutely great for algebraic topology. For a substantially more categorical approach, Strom is also good.

>>10842495
why? i'm working through it on my own right now and i'm liking it. idiosyncratic approach, sure, but effective

>>10840674
>god tier textbooks
>linear algebra done right
This is a contradiction anon

>>10842610
I’m a sick fook
I like a thicc book

>>10842913

Griffiths is good for curious high schoolers and freshmen, but you at least need Jackson for serious study.

>>10846818
If you're an engineering student, Jackson is a complete waste of time.

>>10840674

>>10841925
>shlomo
kek

>>10843966
based fuchs-fomenkbro
i have a bunch of pictures from it saved to my computer but im pooping right now

>>10840674

Damn I really need to go through that book.

I feel like I barely learned shit in my grad school linear algebra classes and now that I'm doing data science I wish I had a better understanding of LinAlg.
t. MS Math

>>10848309
Use Peter Peterson Linear Algebra or Steve Roman Advanced linear algebra

>>10840700
>tfw second edition coming in a few weeks

Can't fucking wait.

>>10848362
My bad, I meant to say third edition

>>10846901
anything written by Halmos is gold

>>10848015

>your race will never claim 40% of Nobel Laureates pertaining to science and mathematics despite being less than 1% of the human population

>>10840680

Great book one of the best on that subject.

>>10849154
>And 80% sexual abusers in high positions over scandal #metoo

>>10849208
>well the joos are over represented on elite position because of the high average IQ
>happens that high position cases of sexual abuses happen to have lot of joos

Why so dumb?

We call it the bible in my field

>>10841838
mc quarrie

>>10840700
>How to Prove It by Velleman
i saw my professor of differential equations reading that last time i talked to him (3 days ago)

I’m a simple man

Any good books in Optimization?

>>10841497
This. Objectively

>>10841823
Schutz really? Pathria is ok, but peskin and shroeder is pretty bad too. They are just popular

>>10850976
based

>>10851016
going to ask again since no one replied the last time, what is a good substitute for Schroeder?

>>10840674
fuck this book aarghhh

>>10851060
STOP RIGHT THERE HEATHEN

>>10840674
Clayden is objectively the best book for Organic Chemistry.
>>10840680
Jesus Christ this books sucks cock. Use McQuarie instead fucking pleb.

>>10842527
wtf are you on about ? Of course it talks about matrices and determinants

>>10849240

They hate us coz they aint us

fight me, fizt*ch niggers

>>10852174
You from MSU? Looks difficult

Anyone here a Physics/Astronomy fag?
Thoughts on pic related?

>>10852174
>Secret russian math book
Maybe translation in 20 years

Nothing quite like it

>>10848015
That isn't funny.

>>10842527
>determinants are beautiful
you absolute fucking faggot. determinants are an incoherent magic trick for symbol shufflers as soon as you leave the reals.

>>10849208
sounds like they're winning. the only time they lose it's because their own machinations caught up to one of them

>>10852456
you are a retard undergrad

never post again

>>10852475
no i'm not. don't be mad because some people try to keep their models intuitive and use patterns of reasoning corresponding to concepts instead of picking puzzle pieces out of a toolbox and mashing them together until they fit. tick tock you do math like a computer and they'll be better at it than you

>>10852464
>Yes, I rape dozens underage white girls like every jew men dream.

>>10851524
I liked pic related a lot, though it suffers in later chapters because the mechanisms behind more advanced reactions are left unexplained because they are "beyond the scope of this course." How does Clayden compare?

>>10851060
Why?

>>10852174
based MSU

>god tier

>>10840674

>>10852749
unbelievable autism

>>10852174
What book is this and does it have an english translation?

>>10852792
translating from russian it's Physical Optics, by Akhmanov and Nikitin

>>10852776
nice floor, may i see without the book?

can anyone recommend a good statistical theory/statistical inference book?

>>10851060
Fucking Stewart

>>10851332
Agree

>>10852451
oy vey

>>10841925
>Shlomo

>>10853133
americans really are sheltered

>>10853136
Almost all your jews fled here. We're more jewish today than europe ever was.

>>10840674
Why has nobody scanned the book Fundalmentals of Linear Algebra by Katsumi Nomizu?

Can't find it on the library gen.

>>10851316
t. Cnile

>>10840674
Obviously something like Wiggins is more rigorous and thorough, but this is probably the best read in math textbooks. Not to mention the awesome excercises.

>>10851060
It's literally calculus for brainlets

>>10851060
It's literally calculus for brainlets

>>10854162
>>10854143
look at these brainlets

>>10854119
>>10852749
>>10850976
>>10846901
>>10842610
>>10841925
incredibly based

>>10840700
The Book Of Proof
https://www.people.vcu.edu/~rhammack/BookOfProof/

>>10851060
Literally nothing wrong with this book if you read the chapters carefully

>>10852325
>as a book/reference (esp for normie)
godtier, and made me excited for my ckt classes
>as a textbook
pretty shit-tier desu
on that note though pic related
people like to site sedra but I think meyer goes in more detail and fleshed out

>Ctrl+F
>No Rudin
We're on a roll

>>10853004
Red granite version here

>>10855729
sick, it makes you feel that you are walking on Mars or something

>>10846901
>finite
:/

One of the best for mid-undergrad level....

>>10855971
well, ugh, aren't infinite-dimensional vector spaces more the domain of functional analysis? can't really expect a linalg book to cover that